New Mayan discovery shows they didn’t think world would end this year.

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I’ve said before that the only thing you can conclude about the Mayan calendar stopping on December 21st, 2012 is that it is time to get a new Mayan calendar. Yet there are still plenty of people out there who cling to the idea that it’s significant in establishing when the world will end.

Now archaeologists have . . . → Read More: New Mayan discovery shows they didn’t think world would end this year.

James the Preacher explains why atheists are atheists. We’re too stupid to know better.

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All these years I thought I was an atheist because I just didn’t see any evidence in support of the concept of God(s). After much critical thought and application of reason it seemed pretty logical that God, at least as described by the major religions of the world, is the result . . . → Read More: James the Preacher explains why atheists are atheists. We’re too stupid to know better.

SEB True Science Fact #74

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We’ve known about global climate change for a long time now.

I can remember learning about the potential impact of global climate change back when I was a kid. This video talks about what we knew some 30 years ago in 1982 and how a lot of what was predicted has come to pass. A lot of folks seem to think that warnings . . . → Read More: We’ve known about global climate change for a long time now.

If you think March’s weather has been fucked up, you’re right.

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You see this picture up here? That’s a mapping of the Land Surface Temperature anomaly for the week of March 8 – 15, 2012. It basically shows all the spots in North America where the temps were either abnormally high or low. Needless to say, March has been a record smashing month for anomalous . . . → Read More: If you think March’s weather has been fucked up, you’re right.

The Box is infallible. Never question the Box.

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This has been floating around for awhile, but I thought I’d share it anyway. The following cartoon illustrates near-perfectly the difficulty in using the scientific method to discover the truth with a True Believer™:

Oh, the number of times I’ve had this conversation with someone. It never ceases to amaze me how they’ll accept, . . . → Read More: The Box is infallible. Never question the Box.

Fruit drinks are as bad, or worse, than soda in terms of sugar.

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I gave up drinking regular soda in my thirties due to my weight and switched to diet sodas because they were “healthier.” Then it turns out they really aren’t all that much better for you so I gave those up as well. It’s been almost a year since I stopped drinking diet pop and in . . . → Read More: Fruit drinks are as bad, or worse, than soda in terms of sugar.

Here’s a perfect example…

… of the problem with stupid people being too stupid to realize how stupid they are that I talked about in my previous entry. Meet the girl who doesn’t understand why we have Leap Years: H0tAndDanger0us (that’s about half right).

Holy crap that’s some Grade-A stupid right there. It’s also inexcusable in . . . → Read More: Here’s a perfect example…

The problem with stupid people is that they’re too stupid to realize how stupid they are.

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I'm right there with you on that one, Chuck.

Or, in other words, ignorance is truly bliss when it comes to evaluating your own abilities. It explains so many things. Things such as the apparent surprise contestants on American Idle seem to express when they’re told they suck harder than a Hoover when it . . . → Read More: The problem with stupid people is that they’re too stupid to realize how stupid they are.

Gonorrhea may soon be an untreatable disease.

The problem of antibacterial resistance is, if you’ll pardon the pun, a growing one and it’s looking like Gonorrhea is near to joining the already too-long list:

Gonorrhea Could Join Growing List of Untreatable Diseases – Yahoo! News

Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world with about 600,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. . . . → Read More: Gonorrhea may soon be an untreatable disease.